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    Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 20 Aug 2018

    Jeet Heer Retweeted Niskanen Center

    Some of "visionaries" who run American big business nearly destroyed the global economy in 2008 and had to be bailed out by public funds. But, whatever. Let's keep the system as it is.https://twitter.com/NiskanenCenter/status/1031536716191092737 …

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    Niskanen CenterVerified account @NiskanenCenter
    The American system, whatever its flaws, is exceptional in its openness to visionaries. Elizabeth Warren's Accountable Capitalism Act is nothing short of a plan to hold those with vision to account, observes @hamandcheese https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/08/elizabeth-warren-accountable-capitalism-act-terrible-idea/ …
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      1. Derf‏ @derftron 20 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        “Nearly destroyed” mmmmmkay. Not even close

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      2. Michael Snow Tires On My S2000 Cohen‏ @mdcohen 20 Aug 2018
        Replying to @HeerJeet

        How would Warren’s plan have helped stop the housing bubble? (It may have other benefits)

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      3. Spartacuz‏ @Spartacousin 20 Aug 2018
        Replying to @mdcohen @HeerJeet

        It would have empowered employees, who were pressured and outright forced by management into granting sub prime mortgages, to blow the whistle a hell of a lot earlier and to not be fired/demoted when they spoke out.

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      1. Induced Demand to the Danger Zone‏ @thetorpedodog 20 Aug 2018
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        telling that they try to use “holding people accountable” as a bogeyman

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      1.  🍖 📲‏ @blakewrites 20 Aug 2018
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        If that Norwegian rebuttal to Fox News is accurate, the U.S. isn't even the preferred country to START a new business, not by a long shot. (Social responsibility for basic human needs might be a factor in that...)

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      1. brislock‏ @brislock 20 Aug 2018
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        Not to mention that ‘holding them to account’ seems pretty damn reasonable.

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      1. ClassicYou‏ @ClassicYou1 20 Aug 2018
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        This tweet is worded like it's a bad thing but how is holding people accountable ever bad?

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      1. Heckin’ of Troy‏ @OnlyTheEarth 20 Aug 2018
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        Both yours and Niskanen’s are good points, but I might suggest that you’re inventing a world where the very regulatory mechanisms meant to constrain big business instead empowered them to wreck the economy and ask for a bailout. Perhaps more regulatory capture isn’t the answer.

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      1. Jake Gibson‏ @JakeG1951 20 Aug 2018
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        And the issue with holding them to account is what? And I thought the right believed in personal responsibility. Silly me.

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      1. Daniel Farina‏ @danfarina 20 Aug 2018
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        No comment on the policy, but "visionaries" have taken on the tenor of do-nothing cons, outright fraudsters ala Theranos, and manic, dilettante man-children like Elon Musk. All I can say is, we're lucky capital can limp along in spite of its handlers.

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